ReviewThe Lancet. Infectious diseases2020
Monitoring approaches for health-care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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142 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The impact of COVID-19 self-isolation on healthcare workers' psychological wellbeing: a systematic review.Occupational medicine (Oxford, England) · 2026Pooled it
- Bidirectional associations between influenza and COVID-19 vaccination: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2026Pooled it
- Heterogeneity in and correlation between host transmissibility and susceptibility can greatly impact epidemic dynamics.Journal of theoretical biology · 2025Pooled it
- Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on nurses' burnout and related factors: A rapid systematic review.Archives of psychiatric nursing · 2022Pooled it
- An Effective Mechanism for the Early Detection and Containment of Healthcare Worker Infections in the Setting of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review and Meta-Synthesis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Impact of COVID-19 on maxillofacial surgery practice: a systematic review.Brazilian journal of otorhinolaryngologyPooled it
- Efficacy of an anonymous, preventive, personalized online counselling to improve shift workers' sleep quality: a randomized controlled trial.Scientific reports · 2026Trial
- A randomized controlled trial investigating digital resilience training for healthcare professionals.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- Efficacy and Safety of BCG Revaccination WithFrontiers in immunology · 2022Trial
- Vicarious traumatization in healthcare providers in response to COVID-19 pandemic in Kelantan, Malaysia.PloS one · 2021Trial
- Infection prevention and control adherence among SARS-CoV-2 infected healthcare workers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: lessons for future outbreaks.Tropical medicine and health · 2026Article
- When Risk Persists: Two-Time Longitudinal Assessment of Healthcare Workers' Exposure Risk in the Context of COVID-19.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- SARS-CoV-2 Seroprevalence, Illness Recall, and Work Absenteeism Among Healthcare Workers: A Facility-Based Cross-Sectional Study in the Philippines, 2021.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2025Article
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- Heterogeneity in and correlation between host transmissibility and susceptibility can greatly impact epidemic dynamics.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Factors associated with SARS-COV-2 positivity in nursing workers.Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da U S P · 2025Article
- Factors associated with long Covid in nursing professionals.Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da U S P · 2025Observational
- Profession and role-based analysis of occupational exposure for COVID-19 among frontline healthcare workers in the pandemic: a risk assessment study.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- [Test Concept of the City of Cologne for Critical Infrastructure (KRITIS) during the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic].Gesundheitswesen (Bundesverband der Arzte des Offentlichen Gesundheitsdienstes (Germany)) · 2024Article
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Abstract
Health-care workers are crucial to any health-care system. During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, health-care workers are at a substantially increased risk of becoming infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and could come to considerable harm as a result. Depending on the phase of the pandemic, patients with COVID-19 might not be the main source of SARS-CoV-2 infection and health-care workers could be exposed to atypical patients, infected family members, contacts, and colleagues, or live in communities of active transmission. Clear strategies to support and appropriately manage exposed and infected health-care workers are essential to ensure effective staff management and to engender trust in the workplace. These management strategies should focus on risk stratification, suitable clinical monitoring, low-threshold access to diagnostics, and decision making about removal from and return to work. Policy makers need to support health-care facilities in interpreting guidance during a pandemic that will probably be characterised by fluctuating local incidence of SARS-CoV-2 to mitigate the impact of this pandemic on their workforce.
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